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Saturday, November 04, 2006

Hypocritical Carson Pleads With Democrats Not To Go Negative

The only candidate in the 7th District congressional race to negatively attack her opponent, Rep. Julia Carson (D), is now pleading with Democrats not to go negative. Feigning outrage at campaign fliers sent out by the DCCC which repeated unproven charges she first raised against her opponent, Eric Dickerson (R), she now professes to support clean campaigning. The Star's Mary Beth Schneider reports:

"I am outraged by the negative mailers sent out by the (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) and completely denounce them," she said.

The mailing accuses Dickerson of having beaten his wife and daughter, and of lying about the incident now.

Carson had disclosed the 1991 incident during a meeting with the Indianapolis Star editorial board several weeks ago. Dickerson was arrested 15 years ago, but the charges were later dropped after his wife refused to testify. The couple is now separated.

Carson said she has never sent out a negative mailing in her 30 years of running for local, state and federal officials. But, she said, under new campaign finance laws, political party groups can spend money on ads that the candidate has no knowledge of nor control over.

"The closing days of a political campaign are crazy, and I favor sanity," Carson said. "I hope the remaining days of this campaign signal a return to sanity and the issues."

Carson's hypocrisy is nothing new, but what is equally disturbing is the disengenuous reporting the Star's Mary Beth Schneider has done everytime this issue is raised. I refer specifically to the following passage in her story: "Dickerson was arrested 15 years ago, but the charges were later dropped after his wife refused to testify. The couple is now separated." While the passage is factually true, the facts not mentioned by Schneider in this story and others she has written on the subject greatly alter its meaning to readers. Those include Paula Dickerson's written denials days after the arrest 15 years ago that her husband beat her up and, more importantly, her public statements immediately following Carson's accusation against Dickerson more recently vehemently denying that her husband beat her up.

The omission of these facts almost seem like punishment because the Dickersons refused to grant an interview to the Star, which first entertained its newsworthiness after Carson leveled the unproven charge during an interview with the editorial board where she, as the Star described it, "rambled" and often provided "disjointed answers" to their questions; instead, the Dickersons chose to respond to the charges through interviews on local talk radio programs. Paula Dickerson's interview with Abdul Hakim-Shabazz of WXNT, in particular, was quite compelling.

Whenever a newspaper discusses a criminal charge involving any person where the alleged crime was never proven in a court of law, it only seems fair that it should disclose all the facts that are known, and not just those that paint the accused in the most unfavorable light. The Star's reporting on this matter from the very beginning has been completely unfair to the Dickersons and misleading to its readers. It is practicing the very form of hypocrisy its editorial board has accused Carson of practicing. It attacks Carson's negative attacks, then repeats the unproven allegations in the most unfavorable light for Dickerson.

karen w, for someone who claims to have been wrongfully terminated by the state, you seem pretty quick to judge someone accused of a crime they were never convicted of committing. You also obviously didn't listen to the lengthy interviews both Eric and Paula gave on local radio station at which they answered all these questions. I hope those who judge your employment case are more open-minded about your case than you are with Dickerson's case.

Amen AI. Karen is quick to judge others, but when the shoe is on her foot, she looks for compassion. Maybe when you sue the state, like you said you would do, everyone should come to an unproven conclusion and dismiss your case.

When Carson was interviewed on the Brown’s show AM1310, she denied that she knew in advance of the Mailers. Later in the interview she stated that she had received a call prior to the Mailers being sent. She broke campaign laws, she lied in a radio interview and you can't tell me that she didn't have the power to stop these Mailers. She's lying again. Dirty politics by a slimy cheat.

I am inclined to believe that the charges against you are true. Now prove it! Mr. Dickerson's charges were dismissed by the Democrat prosecutor Jeff Modisett. Do you understand what that means in legal terms? are you implying that the prosecutor's office gave him special treatment when he dismissed the case?

You don't have any proof otherwise of the charges against him, yet you are accusing him 15 years after his wife denied it. Who are you to second guess the results?

You had better pray that the jury or the judge does not rule aginst you. If you think Julia Carson cares about you, have her to have one of her cronies give you a full time position.

Sure Julia Carson is pleading today after she lied on Amos Brown's showand redused to apologize for the actions of the congressional committee. The Democrats realize now that the 3 mailings has cost them one of their seats in congress. After all of these years, her dirty bag of tricks have caught up with her, and she is not the one who sent it out.

Julia's puppet Wilson Allen took the photographs of Dickerson and sent them to the NDCCC. That is why he is hiding now. He has been exposed too for the liar that he is. I always knew that his cheap camera would get him in trouble.The games people play when they are desparate. Your plans have backfired again!

I'm not accusing Eric Dickerson of anything. I don't even know the man. I'm going by what I've learned through the media (and not just the star). I know of numerous domestic violence cases where the female retracts her statement. Happens all the time. But the police don't retract police reports.

It would be almost impossible for Modisett to have been able to successfully prosecute the case without the wife's testimony. That is pretty obvious.

I say again... if someone had put vicious lies like that about me in the news, I would have sued. That's slander... defamation of character! I would stand up for my rights. Mr. Dickerson has chosen to sit, rather than stand. Why is that?

By the way, I never said that Julia Carson wasn't playing dirty pool in the political area. I don't know whether she knew about the mailings or not... that is between her and her God.

I despise negative campaigning on anyone's part, but it's the nature of the political beast. Too many candidates do it... on both sides of the fence. I don't condone it, but some things you just can't ignore no matter WHO presents them to the public.

If Dickerson were to sue for slander, I might believe. Talk is cheap. Actions speak louder than words.

No he isn't..he said it's not true. What else can he do with three days left before the election?

The information was initially brough up by the Indianapolis Star on September 21, 2006. He's had time to at least announce that he's filing some form of lawsuit for slander and/or defamation of character.

I'm not buying the argument that he hasn't had enough time. Just announcing that he was going to file a lawsuit would have made me feel a little more sympathetic to his plight.

Wilson when did I threaten to break your camera? Why are you attacking me? Have I done something to offend you, if so I'm sorry? All I've said is that I'd be happy to show you a coward through your viewfinder and stick the camera somewhere so it won't be lost. I’ve never said that I would break your camera. I've haven’t said anything to you in days. Why are you coming to AI and starting your slander and innuendos towards me...is it because of what I posted a few days ago?

“I did hear Julia Carson tell Wilson46201 to stop taking photos. She was rather sharp and to the point. Something like "That's enough, stop that". Wilson was being a jerk by annoying folks trying to attend a church function. One man stepped between Wilson and the people he was harassing by constantly photographing them. Finally Carson chastised Wilson. He acted like a spanked toddler. He didn’t say a word but followed her out sulking. Sorry I have to ask Wilson. Do you ever bathe and change clothes? I know its not Saturday, but a little soap and water go a long way. And you must have more than one shirt. If not, I'm sure that the Center Township Trustee can help. “

Wilson you need help. If the money is tight ...Please try the Center Township Trustee Office, maybe they can help. You'll feel better on Wednesday, it will all be over and you can rest then. Julia won’t yell at you anymore.

You have written several comments on the subject with no objectivity.You are alleging the proseuctor was wrong to dismiss the charges.

You admit that you did not hear Mrs. Dickerson explantion of the incident on WXNT Radio. I heard the entire interview. I have never met her, but she did not sound like the kind of woman who would recant a battery charge against her husband or allow him to abuse their daughter.

She is a Christian and a teacher, very strong personality and character. She didn't sound like a weak or docile female.

One, if physical damage was that extreme to Mrs. Dickerson and her daughter. The prosecutor could have elected to prosecute him regardless to her letter for a crime against the state for battery. A recant does not mean the prosecutor along with the report of the police and photographs could not have made a case against Dickerson.

You should not be commenting on a domestic case which had no standing in the first place.

He is not guilty and the prosecutor dismissed the charges. What is it about this police report you do not understand. Innocent until proven guilty.

Julia Carson lied to the Indianapolis Star and personally delivered the report. They had not anticipated his wife speaking out publicly about the incident.

Wilson Allen provided the other photographs to the DCCC. This last minute smear of Dickerson is just another example of the kind of politician she really is. This is not the first time these tactics have been used against her opponents. She is behind in the polls and Dickerson will be elected on Tuesday inspite of the mailers.

Thanks for the additional votes Julia and Wilson. You put him over the top!

I have just been informed by one of your Democrat precinct committeepersons that you are the one who spent hours in the city-county building searching for information on Eric Dickerson and dug up the police report on Eric Dickerson for Julia Carson to give to the indianapolis Star. You sent the information and photgraphs to the National Committee to be used in the mailers.

Did you ever find out the number of earned college credits Julia has while you were digging? Is that a secret too?

Wrong Again: Several employees of the Center Township Trustee's office contacted me and provided the information in the complaints.

I filed as a resident of Center Township, and as an elected Democrat Precinct Committeeperson paid for copies of public records to support their information. The employees feared for their jobs and harassment for reporting her abuse in that office and had agreed to testify under a subpoena to protect their employment. I did not disclose their names in my complaint, but they were willing to come forward if Modisett had pursued an investigation.

Andy Jacobs was Modisetts' honorary chairman and Julia had carried him around the black community as a candidate. Jeff Modisett was not about to investigate Julia for fear of losing his black Democrat supporters.

Faye Mowery, clerk and the County election board did have a hearing on the illegal PAC Committee and said the charges should go to the prosecutor’s office while she was the township trustee.

The election contest for voting fraud was well documented on the voter registration affidavits and the poll books. Stephen Goldsmith sent Senator Julia Carson and the 4 voters a warning letter that they would each be charged with a Class D Felony if they did not vote from their legal addresses instead of her address on Park Avenue. Get your facts straight or is that possible.

I started paying attention to this race when I saw Carson sling the first handful of mud. I followed Mrs. Dickerson's statements and checked out Eric Dickerson carefully.

The irony is that Carson's mudslinging caused me to look closely at Eric Dickerson and in the process I realized he's a far better candidate for Congress than she is. In the meantime I started following what is said about her on blogs, etc. and realized that she is far from the saint I once believed her to be. She's a joke and certainly doesn't belong in Congress.

Recently a friend of mine told me a story of seeing her at a large well attended annual Indianapolis benefit. She rambled about something incomprehensible for so long on stage that someone finally removed her from stage like a bad, unwanted vaudeville performer. He said it was a scream.

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